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Black History Month:

The People of The Harlem Renaissance

 

W.E.B. DuBois:

Dr. W.E.B. Dubois

W. E. B. DuBois to Booker T. Washington, September 24, 1895.

Letter from W.E.B. DuBois to Charles Young (01/21/1916)

Dr. W. E. B. DuBois [advertisement] [from newspaper]

Letter from W.E.B. DuBois to Charles Young (06/28/1917)

Prof. W.E.B. DuBois "The Negro Problem" [advertisement] [from newspaper]

Prof. W.E.B. DuBois.

 

Marcus Garvey:

Marcus Garvey and the Garvey Militia, Harlem, 1924 / Van DerZee, NYC.

Marcus Garvey - "Provisional President of Africa" has his African plan rejected ... / photo from Keystone View Co. Inc. of N.Y.

[Marcus Garvey, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in uniform]

Convention address by Hon. Marcus Garvey delivering constitution for Negro rights

Marcus Garvey, 1887-1940

Plead for Marcus Garvey [from newspaper] (07/28/1923)

Marcus Garvey to Speak at Emery Auditorium [from newspaper] (04/28/1923)

Marcus Garvey et. al to Hold Meet in Gotham [from newspaper] (02/28/1920)

 

Mary White Ovington:

[Mary White Ovington, co-founder of NAACP, half-length portrait, seated, reading, facing right] / Dampf.

[W.E.B. Du Bois, full-length portrait, with Mary White Ovington following Spingarn awards ceremony, Atlanta, Georgia]

[Mary White Ovington, half-length portrait, facing front]

 

Zora Neale Hurston:

[Zora Neale Hurston, Rochelle French, and Gabriel Brown, Eatonville, Florida]

[Zora Neale Hurston and an unidentified man probably at a recording site, Belle Glade, Florida]

[Zora Neale Hurston, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, looking at book, American Stuff, at New York Times Book Fair]

[Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston]

Zora Neale Hurston, 1901-1960

[Zora Neale Hurston. Eatonville, Florida, 1935].

The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

 

Langston Hughes:

[Langston Hughes, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding piece of paper in his hands, in Paris, France]

[Langston Hughes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / photo by James L. Allen.

[Langston Hughes, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, with right hand under chin]

Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June 1941.

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Langston Hughes Was Born (America's Story)

Meet Amazing Americans: Langston Hughes (America's Story)

Langston Hughes Requests Loan for Tuition

Langston Hughes Requests NAACP Assistance

 

Claude McKay:

[Claude McKay, half-length portrait, facing right]

[Claude McKay, 1889-1948, head and shoulders, facing front]

Claude McRay [sic] and Baroness Von Freytag-Loringhoven

 

Walter White:

[Walter White, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing cap and gown]

[Walter White, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, sitting in front of open book]

[Walter White, Secretary of the NAACP, half-length portrait, facing front, standing next to painting by Aaron Kameny, depicting lynched man hanging from tree]

Letter from Walter F. White to George Myers (10/28/1919)

Letter from [Walter White] to George Myers (07/07/1922)

Letter from Walter White to George Myers (12/03/1925)

Walter White Brings Live Message Here [from newspaper]

 

William H. Johnson:

Holcha & Willie / William H. Johnson.

Self-portrait / W. H. Johnson.

Jitterbugs II / W.H. Johnson.

Bazaars behind Oslo Church / William H. Johnson.

Church by lake / William H. Johnson.

Evening / William H. Johnson.

Refugee child / William H. Johnson.

Blind Singer

William H. Johnson: "Street Musicians"

 

National Association for the Advancement of Colered People (N.A.A.C.P.):

[12th Annual Conference, NAACP, June 1921, Detroit, Mich.]

[13th Annual Conference, NAACP, 1922, Newark, N.J.]

18th Annual Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Indianapolis, Ind., June 22-28, 1927

20th Annual session of the N.A.A.C.P., 6-26-29, Cleveland, Ohio

23rd Annual Conference of the N.A.A.C.P., Washington, D.C., May 17-22, 1932

NAACP portraits of founders, board members, staff, branch officers, and other prominent cultural, social, and political figures

NAACP photographs of National, Regional, and State conference activities and delegates

Philadelphia Convention

"The Negro in Wartime" Pamphlet

[William Pickens, Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

Robert W. Bagnall, Director of Branches, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Moorfield Storey, president, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

N.A.A.C.P. [from newspaper] (11/13/1915)

N.A.A.C.P. [from newspaper] (06/12/1920)

NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom 1909-2009

The Crisis Magazine

 

National Urban league:

National Urban League Papers. National Interracial Conference, 1928.

National Urban League Papers. National Interracial Conference, 1928.

Conference of National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes [from newspaper]

[Group portrait of African American men and woman with "Overcome evil with good" and "Live wires" banners] / A. P. Bedou, New Orleans.

[African American men working as typesetters]

[African American men working at printing presses]

National Urban League Papers. The Negro Population in Minneapolis: A Study of Race Relations. From the National Urban League Papers.

 

Buildings of Importance:

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 1530 Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

 

Other:

Countee Cullen to George H. Haynes, December 7, 1926

[Jessie Redmon Fauset, 1884?-1961; full length, seated, facing slightly left]

Writer Jessie Fauset

[Aaron Douglas, 1898-, head and shoulders, facing right]

[Portrait of James Weldon Johnson]

Cayton's weekly., April 19, 1919, Image 3

Cayton's weekly., May 31, 1919, Image 2

The Tulsa star., October 09, 1920, Weekly Mail Edition, Page PAGE FIVE, Image 5

New-York tribune., July 03, 1921, Image 39

New-York tribune., July 23, 1922, Image 45

[The Whites Invade Harlem]

James Weldon Johson Was Born (America's Story)

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Was Born (America's Story)

Gospel Singer, Mahalia Jackson Was Born (America's Story)

Novelist, Essayist, and Playwright James Baldwin Was Born (America's Story)

Leontyne Price Was Born (America's Story)

The Harlem Renaissance and the Flowering of Creativity

Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop: Milieu: The Harlem Community Art Center and the WPA

 

Other Resources from the Internet

Websites:

Harlem Renaissance (BIO)

Art & Culture: The Harlem Renaissance (PBS)

The Harlem Renaissance for Kids (PBS)

Harlem Renaissance (PBS)

Art of the Harlem Renaissance

Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community

Harlem History from Columbia University

 

Books:

The Harlem Renaissance by Meachen Rau ~ ISBN-10: 0756517273 or ISBN-13: 978-0756517274 ---Ages 8 and up

A Song for Harlem: Scraps of Time by Patricia McKissack ~ ISBN-10: 067006209X or ISBN-13: 978-0670062096 ---Ages 8 and up

Women of the Harlem Renaissance by Lisa Beringer McKissack and Beringer McKissack ~ ISBN-10: 0756520347 or ISBN-13: 978-0756520342 ---Ages 8 and up

The Harlem Renaissance in American History by Ann Gaines ~ ISBN-10: 0766014584 or ISBN-13: 978-0766014589 ---Ages 10 and up

Harlem Renaissance Artists (Artists in Profile) by Denise M. Jordan ~ ISBN-10: 1588106497 or ISBN-13: 978-1588106490 --- Ages 10 and up

The Harlem Renaissance: A Celebration of Creativity (Journey to Freedom: The African American Library) by Lucia Raatma ~ ISBN-10: 1567666450 or ISBN-13: 978-1567666458 ---Ages 10 and up

Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance by Wendy Hart Beckman ~ ISBN-10: 0766018342 or ISBN-13: 978-0766018341 ---Ages 11 and up

Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance by P. Stephen Hardy and Sheila Jackson Hardy ~ISBN-10: 051621201X or ISBN-13: 978-0516212012 ---Ages 11 and up

Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance by Jim Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, and Brenda Wilkinson ~ ISBN-10: 0471211524 or ISBN-13: 978-0471211525 --- Ages 11 and up

The Harlem Renaissance: Profiles in Creativity by Cheryl Willis Hudson ~ ISBN-10: 1582737320 or ISBN-13: 978-1582737324

Lucent Library of Black History - The Harlem Renaissance by Andy Koopmans ~ ISBN-10: 1590187024 or ISBN-13: 978-1590187029 --- Ages 12 and up

The Harlem Renaissance (Bloom's Period Studies) by Harold Bloom ~ ISBN-10: 0791076792 or ISBN-13: 978-0791076798

Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora) by Anne Elizabeth Carroll ~ ISBN-10: 0253345839 or ISBN-13: 978-0253345837

Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West by Sharon L. Jones ~ ISBN-10: 0313323267 or ISBN-13: 978-0313323263

A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 by David Krasner ~ ISBN-10: 0312295901 or ISBN-13: 978-0312295905

The Harlem Renaissance (Literature & Thought) by Literature & Thought Series ~ ISBN-10: 0789154552 or ISBN-13: 978-0789154552

W.E.B. DuBois: Civil Rights Activist, Author, Historian (Transcending Race in America: Biographies of Biracial Achievers) by Jim Whiting ~ ISBN-10: 1422216187 or ISBN-13: 978-1422216187 ---Ages 10 and up

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Civil Rights (The Library of American Lives and Times) by Ryan P. Randolph ~ ISBN-10: 1404226567 or ISBN-13: 978-1404226562 ---Ages 10 and up

W. E. B Du Bois (Up Close) by Tonya Bolden ~ ISBN-10: 0670063029 or ISBN-13: 978-0670063024 ---Ages 11 and up

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis ~ ISBN-10: 0805035680 or ISBN-13: 978-0805035681

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography by David Levering Lewis ~ ISBN-10: 0805088059

A Man Called Garvey: The Life and Times of the Great Leader Marcus Garvey by Paloma Mohamed and illustrated by Barrington Braithwaite ~ ISBN-10: 0912469404 or ISBN-13: 978-0912469409 ---Ages 8 and up

Marcus Garvey: Controversial Champion of Black Pride (African-American Biographies by Anne E. Schraff ~ ISBN-10: 0766021688 or ISBN-13: 978-0766021686 ---Ages 11 and up

Marcus Garvey by Suzanne Francis-Brown and illustrated by Jean Jacques Vaysierres ~ ISBN-10: 9766373361 or ISBN-13: 978-9766373368

Zora!: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin ~ ISBN-10: 0547006950 or ISBN-13: 978-0547006956 --- Ages 9 and up

Zora Neale Hurston: I Have Been in Sorrow's Kitchen (African-American Biographies by Laura Baskes Litwin ~ ISBN-10: 0766025365 or ISBN-13: 978-0766025363 --- Ages 10 and up

Zora Neale Hurston: African American Writer (Journey to Freedom: The African American Library) by Deborah Cannarella ~ ISBN-10: 1567666493 or ISBN-13: 978-1567666496 --- Ages 10 and up

Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon ~ ISBN-10: 0763658146 or ISBN-13: 978-0763658144 --- Ages 10 and up

My People by Langston Hughes and illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr. ~ ISBN-10: 1416935401 or ISBN-13: 978-1416935407 ---Ages 4 and up

Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes by Floyd Cooper ~ ISBN-10: 0698116127 or ISBN-13: 978-0698116122 --- Ages 4 and up

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel, Arnold Rampersad, and illustrated by Benny Andrews ~ ISBN-10: 1402718454 or ISBN-13: 978-1402718458 --- Ages 8 and up

Langston Hughes: The Harlem Renaissance (Writers and Their Work) by Maurice O. Wallace ~ ISBN-10: 0761425918 or ISBN-13: 978-0761425915 --- Ages 9 and up

Li'L Sis and Uncle Willie: A Story Based on the Life and Paintings of William H. Johnson by Gwen Everett ~ ISBN-10: 1562825933 or ISBN-13: 978-1562825935 --- Grades 2 - 5

William H. Johnson: An American Modern edited by Teresa G. Gionis with contributions by Richard J. Powell, Lowery Stokes Sims, Lislie king-Hammond, and Aaron Bryant ~ ISBN-10: 0295991488 or ISBN-13: 978-0295991481

The NAACP: An Organization Working to End Discrimination (Journey to Freedom: The African American Library) by Andrew Santella ~ ISBN-10: 1567665403 or ISBN-13: 978-1567665406 --- Ages 10 and up

Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years by Linda Barrett Osborne ~ ISBN-10: 1419700200 or ISBN-13: 978-1419700200 --- Ages 10 and up

A Kid's Guide to African American History: More than 70 Activities (A Kid's Guide series) by Nancy I. Sanders ~ ISBN-10: 1556526539 or ISBN-13: 978-1556526534 --- Ages 7 and up

 

Videos:

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance (2006) from PBS, 60 minutes

A Great Day in Harlem (1995) from Homevision, 60 minutes

The American Experience - Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2001) from PBS, 90 minutes

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008) from PBS American Masters & Bay Bottom news, 84 minutes

Zora's Roots (2008) from PBS, 60 minutes

 
 
 
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